Geeky Traveller

I can’t get enough of these sites that combine travel ideas with social networking. TripSay is a great little website that you can join to get recommendations for travel based on what you’re looking for in travel. It also takes into account other places that you’ve seen and how you rated them.

When I signed up, I set a profile for myself saying that I tend to look more for budget travel than luxury (that’s an understatement!), I like to be a little off the beaten track, I love multi-lingual more than just English-speaking, and that I seek out both relaxed/fun travel over sporty/adventure and that I require family-friendly trips.

Then I added all the places I could think of, off the top of my head, that I have visited and rated them.

Now, I can go ahead and find recommendations on future travel based on my needs and what I have liked in the past. It could still be a bit of a crap-shoot for me, seeing as how most of the travels I did were prior to having kids when kid-friendly wasn’t a factor for me, but interesting nonetheless.

Once you complete everything, it gives you a map with a bunch of suggested destinations. It’s curious to me, because there are a lot of places that I would actually love to see, and they’re not listed – for instance, there’s nothing in Africa at all, and surely there’s got to be something somewhere in an entire continent that would work for a family. On the other hand, I did set my dream destination as Prague, and it recommended the Charles Bridge in Prague, a place I would definitely love to see.

I think it’s the kind of site that will require some playing and poking around. It’s definitely not an immediate travel site, but if you’re just daydreaming about your next vacation and want some ideas, TripSay is a good place to start!

(photo: Tripsay.com)

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